OnTimeStats

Historical on-time performance

Houston to Ontario

1,345 miData through Dec 2025Source: US DOT · BTS

Flights on HOU–ONT arrive on time 84% of the time over the last 12 months.

On-time rate84%arrived within 15 min
p90 delay20 min1 in 10 flights is worse (tail risk)
Cancelled0.7%of scheduled flights

based on 305 flights over the last 12 months. On-time means arriving within 15 minutes (BTS standard).

By airline

How each carrier compares

  • Southwest Airlines
    On-time84%
    Medianon time
    p9020 min
    Cancel0.7%
    Flights305

Why flights run late

Delay causes

  • Airline35%
  • Weather7%
  • Air traffic (NAS)12%
  • Late aircraft47%
  • Security0%

Most delay minutes here are attributed to Late aircraft.

Over time

On-time trend

By season

On-time rate by month

When to fly

Best time to fly HOU → ONT

All airlines · rolling 36 months (2023-01 .. 2025-12).

Best time of day

Mornings are the most reliable time of day to fly this route — 91% on time.

  • Mornings91% on time · p90 10 min · 314 flights
  • Afternoons78% on time · p90 25 min · 125 flights · limited
  • Evenings76% on time · p90 55 min · 71 flights · limited
  • Middays72% on time · p90 45 min · 296 flights

Best day of week

On-time rates are fairly even by day on this route — ranging from 76% to 90% on time.

  • Tuesdays90% on time · p90 10 min · 117 flights · limited
  • Thursdays82% on time · p90 20 min · 114 flights · limited
  • Wednesdays80% on time · p90 30 min · 117 flights · limited
  • Mondays79% on time · p90 55 min · 118 flights · limited
  • Saturdays78% on time · p90 25 min · 106 flights · limited
  • Fridays78% on time · p90 35 min · 116 flights · limited
  • Sundays76% on time · p90 45 min · 119 flights · limited
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Methodology

A flight is on time when it arrives within 15 minutes of schedule — the US DOT / BTS standard. Median and p90(the “1-in-10 bad day”) are read from the full arrival-delay distribution, never averaged across periods.

Figures cover a carrier’s own BTS-coded flights. Cells below ~200 flights are flagged as limited data. All numbers are pre-computed from public BTS On-Time Performance data.